Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Representing Human Hands in Western Art - IV

Gerard Allebé
Study of Right Hand
1826
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg after Jacob Gottlob Rugendas
Study of Hand holding a Needle
ca. 1830-45
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Sybrand Altmann
Studies of Left Hand
ca. 1840
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Daniel Huntington
Study of Hand holding Communion Wafer
1844
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


Auguste Vacquerie
La Main de Madame Hugo
ca. 1853-54
salted paper print
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

Georges Seurat
The Hand of Poussin, after Ingres
ca. 1875-77
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Adolph Menzel
Two Studies of Gripping Right Hand
1884
drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Hand of Banner Bearer
late 19th century
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Alphonse Legros
Studies of Hands
late 19th century
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Gilbert Tompkins
Rendering of Casts of Hands
1902
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Dutch Photographer
Pair of Hands
before 1915
gelatin silver print from X-Ray film
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hand
1918
palladium print
Art Institute of Chicago

Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble
1919
palladium print
Art Institute of Chicago

John Heartfield
The Hand has Five Fingers
1928
lithograph
Art Institute of Chicago

Willard van Dyke
Boxer's Hands
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago